" PENNSYLVANIA " 1960s TRAVELOGUE FILM PHILADELPHIA HARRISBURG PITTSBURGH MD67744

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit / periscopefilm
Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com
This travelogue film opens with the early history of Pennsylvania including images of William Penn (:12). In 1681, King Charles was persuaded to deed Penn a large swath of land (:38). The original name of the state was to be ‘Sylvania’ (:42). The state is rich in ore, mountain ranges and great cities (:57). Skyline of Philadelphia(1:06). Off Locust Street, one can see a sign for the once popular Horn & Hardart cafeteria (1:13). This was one of the early first food service automats erected in Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore. City Hall in the background. Sstatue of William Penn atop City Hall (1:24). A bird’s eye view captures the 'City of Brotherly Love’ (1:34). Penn Center (1:51). The Schuylkill River near the Philadelphia Art Museum (1:57). The Benjamin Franklin Bridge over the Delaware River (2:07). Philadelphia Municipal Airport (2:10). Capital Airlines airplane, appears (dating the film sometime before 1961 as this was when the airline merged with United Airlines) (2:15). Elfreth’s Alley (2:22) a historic street dating back to 1703. Benjamin Franklin’s crypt within Elfreth’s Alley (2:31). Independence Hall (2:41), where the Declaration of Independence was signed. George Washington’s statue (2:46). Tourists visit the Liberty Bell (3:06); peaking at the inscription and the bell’s long crack. The colonial home where Betsy Ross was believed to have made the US’s first flag is pictured (3:41). Bowman’s Hill (3:58) and Bowman’s Hill Tower are highlighted (4:01). Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site (4:11) is another prominent landmark. Washington’s Memorial Chapel (4:25) commemorates the struggle for freedom. Tourists peer into the tiny huts once home to foot soldiers (4:46). The National Memorial Arch at Valley Forge Historical Park (4:55). Modern highways connect the large state (5:30) including the 28th Division highway. Pennsylvania’s famed Turnpike is of the most well known (5:44). It cuts through the Alleghenies (5:59). Agricultural Pennsylvania (6:26). A cigar leaf tobacco farm is visited (7:16). The Pennsylvania Amish community retains the older method of farming (7:45). Local Pennsylvania Dutch enjoy an apple butter party (8:26). A band plays the locals into motion (9:23). The capital of Pennsylvania is Harrisburg (9:58) on the banks of the Susquehanna River. The Capitol building’s great dome is highlighted (10:04). Gettysburg (10:33) was the site of the Battle of Gettysburg. Cannons are zoomed in on here (10:37). The State of Pennsylvania monument (10:53) and the Eternal Light Peace Memorial (11:00) are notable attractions. Industrial Pennsylvania is looked to (11:22). The World-Famous Horseshoe Curve is situated in Altoona (11:45). A steam locomotive; all but obsolete today, (12:07) moves down the railroad. The diesel engine train which replaced these follows (12:13). Coal is mined from deep within the earth (12:41). The largest coal mine is Bailey Mine in PA (13:12). Mining is also conducted in Cornwall (13:28). The historic Cornwall furnace follows (13:52) crafted in 1742. Molten slag runs down the side the dumps (14:50). The skyline of Pittsburgh is captured (15:12). The Allegheny and Monongahela River join here forming the Ohio River (15:15). The remaining building of Fort Pitt (15:26) is the blockhouse. The city’s golden triangle, the center of industry and finance (15:43). Mellon Park (15:46) features an underground parking lot. The Mellon Institute (16:08). Carnegie Institute (16:11) and Library and Institute of Technology. Stephen Collins Foster Memorial was opened in 1937 (16:20). The University Of Pittsburgh Cathedral Of Learning appears at (16:33). Squirrel Hill Tunnel funnels out traffic (17:20). Pittsburgh Airport (17:33). Red iron ore is unloaded at Erie Harbor (18:06). The Perry Memorial Column stands near Crystal Point (18:23). The restored remains of Perry’s Flagship Niagara are hosted nearby (18:28). A fisherman drags in a catch of lake fish (19:39). A reproduction of Drake’s well (20:30) signifies the start of the oil industry. The Susquehanna River is viewed (21:05). The lookout at French asylum (21:18) was planned to be a safe haven for Marie Antoinette. Guests visit Leonard Harrison Sate Forest Park (21:41) to view Pine Creek (21:48). Locals surf bathe in Lake Erie (22:20). The state flower is mountain laurel (23:08). Longwood Gardens are situated near Kennett Square (23:32). Rose gardens erupt in Hershey (24:26). Cook Forest Park is visited (25:26). Seneca Point was once home to the Iroquois Indians (25:57).
This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit www.PeriscopeFilm.com

[@johnnyboyy5578]

I just want to thank this channel in all it does to revive these old videos that are so intriguing! Keeping history alive, I love it

[@mitchelldakelman7006]

This is among one of my favorite travel film ever made! Its a classic production you will never see again!

[@debraallen63]

Back when the Illusion of Freedom was strong 💪 It's gone now.

[@mitchelldakelman7006]

This is one of a series of auto-travel related films commissioned by Standard Oil (Esso/Exxon) to John Bransby Productions after World War II to promote sight-seeing through the US by car. The Pennsylvania film was first produced in 1948 but was slightly revised in 1957, in which this is the version you are seeing. A product of the time after WWII, these were all well produced documentary films made before the advent of web pages. I first saw the Pennsylvania film seen here about 50 years ago, and with my automobile, traveled to many of the spots shown, including the Pennsylvania Turnpike, and its abandoned two-lane tunnels, in which I eventually co-authored two books about it. from Mitch

[@guldenaydin9918]

Harika!… Keşke hep böyle kalsaydı…

[@bas1010]

That's the Pennsylvania I was born into in 1953. Jesus Christ how everything changed.

[@benjaminperez7328]

Watch it with the blasphemy, Yinzer.

[@debraallen63]

It's a complete Psycho-Getto Shitshow now.😊

[@Sennmut]

Is there anything that hasn't gone woke????

[@onemercilessming1342]

Yea, verily.

[@onemercilessming1342]

@@Sennmut Nope.

[@ChatGPT1111]

This looks like early/mid 1950's, the cars, clothes, hairstyles, buildings and the style of production.

[@frankwafer6919]

Thank you, Bravo!🙂💯💥👍!

[@HockeyVictory66]

Aerial American put all these docs to shame. It’s still interesting to hear it this way.

[@jaminova_1969]

It was an Amish Paradise!

[@onemercilessming1342]

Only part of PA is Amish. There are other groups: Menonite, Quaker, etc.

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

Penn's statue atop City Hall remained the highest point in Philadelphia until 1987.

[@onemercilessming1342]

Pennsylvania--a great place to be FROM. Try living in the anthracite coal regions with very little upward mobility, and salary stagnation just barely above the poverty level, and two ways out: college and the military. I left in 1981 to enter the US Navy and never looked back.

[@debraallen63]

Two ways out - college, government owned and controlled education; or military - a "Sol-DIE-r" (soldier) for the government that's Owned by the Vatican. I just simply Left the state of Pennsylvania. My whole family lives there and both my brothers became Sol-DIE-rs as others in my family did. I've warned people since decades before the Internet even existed to no avail. You must Seek Truth because it's not offered in government owned and controlled Schools and Churches and Tel-LIE-vision!!!!!!! They don't call it PROGRAMMING for nothing 📺

[@onemercilessming1342]

@debraallen63 I am a US Navy veteran, as are my ancestors. I am forever grateful to my government for giving me a chance to get out of the anthracite coal fields, since graduation from The Pennsylvania State University with a degree in mechanical engineering didn't do the trick.

[@debraallen63]

@@onemercilessming1342 My husband also has a degree from a Pennsylvania University and is an Army veteran. I'm just a veteran of the streets of Pennsylvania with several degrees in Survival. We don't "be-LIE-ve" the patriotic propaganda, we see Truth. Blessings 🙏

[@onemercilessming1342]

@debraallen63 I don't care what you see. King Coal is dead. The steel mills are shut down. The little coal towns like Mahanoy City, Shenandoah, Frackville, St. Clair are all but ghost towns. PA is a rust belt state and has little to offer anyone with brains, talent, and a desire for a much better life than subsisting on $7800 a year. I earned more in the US Navy.

[@ReggieArford]

@@debraallen63 Horsefeathers! The Quakers and Amish are churches of the Reformation, and have no loyalty to the Church of Rome. And Mr. Penn himself established that there would be NO religious test to immigrate or remain in Pennsylvania. The only qualification for public office is that the officer must believe in (a) God... so that they might be able to swear their Oath of Office.

[@buckshot6481]

Wish Penn could see Kensington n Allegheny !

[@Jack-xo2zp]

Judging by the automobiles and the airplanes, I would guess that this film was made in 1956, possibly 1957. This is not a 1960s film.

[@debraallen63]

Those were still around in the early 60s and even into the early 70s.

[@ReggieArford]

True. The Pennsylvania Railroad stopped using stream locomotives in 1957.

[@brianarbenz1329]

1:30 "If Penn could look down today on his City of Brotherly Love."... he'd see Frank Rizzo, the MOVE bombing, police brutality, red lining of neighborhoods and say, "Well that was a flop!"

[@65gtotrips]

We could surely use a Frank Rizzo type mayor today.

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

​@@65gtotrips- A racist who rides roughshod over the rights of Americans? I think that Mayor Cherelle Parker is doing one hell of a job hitting the ground running.

[@priceless2382]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@yankeechicken61]

Where corruption is a way of life.

[@ElPatron42069]

wtf happened to PA

[@DerrickOil]

The Democrat party.

[@JebBush4Prez]

Republicans ruined it like they do everything else

[@samaulicino4202]

@@DerrickOil Think a little deeper than that my friend if you want out. Supporting the lesser of 2 evils isn't going to change the world.

[@benjaminperez7328]

Coal and steel went down the crapper so all the well paid jobs for unskilled labor went too. Anyone with brains and two nickels to rub together packed up and headed south. (and West) That’s why there’s a Steelers bar in every city outside the Rust Belt.

[@benjaminperez7328]

@@samaulicino4202 A lot of folks just don’t know History and/or understand basic economics. If it’s cheaper to import steel from China, well guess what happens to Pittsburgh? 👎🏼🚽

[@brycenew]

‘…deed the Quaker a large tract of land, in Indian Country…’ Wait! Whose country?! Why was the King giving someone else’s Country away?! Where were the Indians going to go? WTF?!! And this kids, is why America is the greatest, most free country in the whole world

[@ReggieArford]

Study history. Mr. Penn subsequently *bought* the land, in several transactions, from the Iroquois Nations. Who knew exactly what was going on; they were not simple or ignorant savages!

[@brettmitchell5229]

Diversity is our strength😢

[@vicepresidentmikepence889]

Exactly, Heaven is very Diverse. People who don't like diversity better pray they never make it to Heaven

[@benjaminperez7328]

All of THOSE PEOPLE from Philly, RIGHT??????